By Ray LeMoine
No female photographer has spent as much time in Iraq as Maya Alleruzzo of Associated Press. Today her shot of the aftermath of female suicide bombing in Baquaba leads the NY Times website.
The bomber — the 17th woman to detonate a suicide bomb in Diyala this year, according to official statistics — detonated her explosives near the front of the Court of Appeals building in Baquba, Diyala’s capital, on a street that has a number of government buildings and is closed to cars. It has become known as the “street of suicide bombers and car bombers”because there have been so many explosions there.
October 9, 2008 at 2:46 pm
did you know her when you were over there?
October 10, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Yes, Maya’s a good friend. She was in NY about a month ago weighing whether to go back to Iraq. I guess she chose to go.